Today, students worked on one of two activites:
1. Sunflower Measurement. Students were developing their understanding of non-standard using paperclips, cubes and gems, practicing an ability to place the first tool at the end of the object, ensuring each tool touches end to end in a straight line, and using one tool at a time to measure an object.
2. Toilet Paper Solar System model. Students recognized that the current model we have in the classroom shows each planet an equal distance away from each other, which is note correct! Using a table of relative distances, students marked off the distances to each of the planets on a 100 sheet long piece of toilet paper. Students were developing their ability to count on from a known number, and applying their understanding of familiar numbers to understand unfamiliar ones.
In the afternoon, we got together with Ms. Gray's class to continue learning about The First Great Lesson. We explored the idea of liquids, and how the earth settled into different molten rock layers based on how heavy the particles were. Students explored three different liquids (syrup, water and oil) to see if they could identify characteristics which might indicate which liquid was "heavy", which was "medium-heavy" and which was "light". After making predictions, they poured them together and observed how the liquids settled into layers. Even after the layers were mixed together, they settled back into the same positions.
In your child'a mail folder this evening, please find a notice (light yellow) about Fun Lunches this year. Thank you to School Council for organizing this for our school community.
Reminders:
- please return your child's Poetry Folder at your earliest convenience.
- library exchange is tomorrow. Library exchange is every Tuesday.
- please return your demographic information package (brown envelope) at your earliest convenience.
- ADmazing coupon book fundraiser is ongoing.
- September Scholastic book orders due this Thursday.
Thank you everyone! Have a wonderful evening!
Ms. Thomas
